LAPP

Centre de Physique Théorique de Grenoble-Alpes

LAPTh, an overview

LAPTh is a mixed research unit (UMR 5108) of the CNRS (within the Institute of Physics, INP) and the Université de Savoie. It is located in Annecy-le-Vieux, 5km from the centre of Annecy and about 40km from CERN and Geneva. The activities of LAPTh are centred around three main areas of research:

phenomenology of particle physics,

astroparticles and cosmology,

mathematical physics in particular field and string theory and aspects of symmetry.

News

PhysTeV 2019 Les Houches

This series of workshops, started 20 years ago, aims to bring together theorists and experimentalists working on the phenomenology of TeV colliders with an emphasis on the physics at the LHC. The highlight of the 2019 Les Houches Edition is to take full advantage of the data that has been collected at the LHC so far and prepare for the future runs. In the light of the LHC results, a reflection on the strategy in HEP and prospects from future facilities (at high and low energy) should be conducted. The Workshop will address issues such as how to best exploit these data as well as how to prepare for future LHC data, and what is most desirable in LHC upgrades. These activities will be conducted in close connection with the development and improvements of related theory tools, in particular of Monte-Carlo event generators. The role of machine learning and artificial intelligence will be part of these new development. The Workshop runs over one year, including two meetings in Les Houches in the month of June, and exchanges and collaborations before and after the meetings. The meetings in Les Houches will consist of two sessions:

Johannes Henn, Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Physics

Johannes Henn former Erasmus master student in physics at the Université de Savoie and former PhD student at LAPTh under the supervision of Prof. Emeri Sokatchev, has been appointed as a new Director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. Johannes, 37 years old, is one of the world's leading experts in the research field of scattering amplitudes, which are used for the precise description of accelerator experiments. It is a very innovative research area, which establishes a close link between theoretical and experimental particle physics. Johannes has been running a research group for theoretical and mathematical physics at Mainz University since 2015.

Another blow for the dark matter interpretation of the Galactic Center Excess

For almost ten years, astronomers have been studying a mysterious diffuse radiation coming from the center of our Galaxy. Originally, it was thought that this radiation could originate from the elusive dark matter particles that many researchers are hoping to find. However, physicists from the University of Amsterdam and the Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique have now found further evidence that rapidly spinning neutron stars are a much more likely source for this radiation.

RAQIS'18

Recent Advances in Quantum Integrable Systems

These international meetings aim at bringing in contact people working on various aspects of the Theory of Quantum Integrable Systems. Applications of Integrable Systems, such as string/gauge theories, condensed matter physics or statistical physics are also emphasized. In particular, the two last days of RAQIS'18 will be dedicated to a Statistical Physics session devoted to out-of-equilibrium problems.

RAQIS'18

The conference will be held at LAPTh, Annecy from 10th to September 14th, 2018.

DSU2018

The 14th international workshop on the "Dark Side of the Universe 2018" will be held at LAPTh, Annecy, France. The Dark Side of the Universe (DSU)workshops bring together a wide range of theorists and experimentalists to discuss ideas on models of the dark side, and relate them to current and future experiments.